Troubleshooting Tools (Reporting Services)

This topic describes the tools available to troubleshoot SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. These tools can be divided into two areas: tools available for troubleshooting the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Server API, HTTP.sys, and tools available for troubleshooting Reporting Services. You might need to use these tools when you need more information about reserved Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for the Reporting Server or when you don't see values that you expect or understand in the Reporting Services Configuration tool.

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Beginning with SQL Server 2008, you might need to troubleshoot problems with HTTP.sys, because Reporting Services uses HTTP.sys to reserve URLs. Previous versions of Reporting Services used Internet Information Services (IIS) to do this. For more information about HTTP.sys, see HTTP Server API on MSDN.

HTTP.sys records error information in the HTTP.sys log file. Use this information to troubleshoot problems related to URL reservations or HTTP errors, such as bad requests, access problems, and service availability.

Reporting Services records information in a variety of log files. Use the following log files to discover information about server operations and report server applications that run on the local computer: